Illustrated and Described from Pictures, Drawings and Prints in the Collection of Sir Jeremiah Coleman BT.
The Noble Game of Cricket Illustrated and Described from Pictures, Drawings and Prints in the Collection of Sir Jeremiah Coleman BT.
B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1941.
First edition. 4to. One of 50 copies 'for the author' from a total limitation of 150 copies. Original green buckram, lettered gilt, in a green dustwrapper with black titles, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Inscribed by the author in verse to the front blank, "You may search the world all round,/ But where Englishmen are found,/ from the frozen polar ocean to the far Antipodes,/ where there's room to pitch a wicket,/ you will find us playing cricket,/ for king willow rules the meadows,/ as Britannia rules the seas. Jeremiah Colman, Author" Tipped in colour frontispiece, and 103 further full page illustrations, including 33 tipped in colour plates. A near fine copy with light foxing throughout, in a near very good dustwrapper, which shows some general wear and a couple of chips to the head of the spine and the rear panel, internally reinforced with card to the spine and folds.
One of the monumental works of cricket literature, designed to showcase the pre-eminent collection of cricket paintings of Sir Jeremiah Colman, now owned by MCC. Even the notoriously hard to please Rowland Bowen was impressed, reporting in a review for his Cricket Quarterly in 1964,
"It is the cricketana collector's book par excellence: magnificent in appearance and in content... delight in it as quite easily the most marvellous book on the game that has ever been produced, or perhaps, ever will be."
Stock ID: 46027
£1,250.00
